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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (296353)	9/13/2002 12:18:19 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

We're doing better than any country on the planet. Contrast our recovering dead rivers with Europe's Po. Still, for everything the Po may have done to man, man has done at least as much to it. Nearly 25 percent of the land along its banks has been denuded of natural vegetation to make way for sterile plantations of poplars harvested for cellulose; the river is dammed for hydroelectric power and tainted by agricultural and industrial chemicals, to say nothing of the daily effluent from Milan, a city of 1.3 million—with no sewage treatment plant—situated on two of the Po’s tributaries. (Ironically, another city of its size reprimanded by the European Environment Agency for its sewage problem is Brussels, seat of the European Union.) magma.nationalgeographic.com Remember that next time we hear a lecture from across the Atlantic about how we in the US are mistreating Our Mother.